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Title: The Best Of Times by Greg Tang, Harry Briggs ISBN: 0-439-21044-5 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Of Times - A Wonderful Resource!
Comment: As a teacher, this book is a wonderful resource because it does not promote the memorization of multiplication facts, but rather it teaches the reader to problem solve and that there are different ways to approach a problem. As the title suggests, it is full of 'strategies' - when students attempt a mathematical problem of any sort, you want them to have a bank of strategies to draw from. This book is ideal for that. My students enjoyed the playful rhymes, almost musical in a way, as well as the bright, vibrant illustrations of all of Tang's books. Tang has a wonderful way of making math "make sense" for kids. Two thumbs up!
Rating: 2
Summary: Not for kids who are struggling to learn their facts!
Comment: I bought this book thinking it might help my daughter learn her multiplication facts. However, for the strategies explained in this book to help, you'd have to be a math whiz, and also know a fair number of multiplication facts to begin with. For example, this is the strategy for multiplying by 6: "Six is pretty quick to do, just multiply by 3 then 2. If this sounds like too much trouble, triple first before you double!" (!!) Now, this might be handy if the book taught an easy way to triple, but the strategy for multiplying by 3 is: "Three is as easy as can be, if you triple what you see. In other words just add it thrice, this simply is one more than twice!" Simple, hunh? I would have given the book 1 star, but I liked the illustrations.
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Title: Math Appeal: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles by Greg Tang, Harry Briggs ISBN: 0439210461 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Math for All Seasons by Greg Tang, Harry Briggs, Gerg Tang ISBN: 0439210429 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Grapes of Math: Mind Stretching Math Riddles by Greg Tang, Harry Briggs ISBN: 043921033X Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Math-Terpieces: The Art of Problem-Solving by Greg Tang, Greg Paprocki ISBN: 0439443881 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat: The Mathematical Cat by Theoni Pappas ISBN: 1884550142 Publisher: Wide World Pub Tetra Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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